Wireframe News Podcast

Episodes

1. 29

   The Clause That Can’t Fire

   The Clause That Can't Fire · A Wireframe News essay The AI labs are more afraid than they have ever been, and none of them can stop. The reason is written into how each one was founded. On October 9, Axios reported that executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are gaming out a…

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   Oct 12, 2026

   19m
2. 28

   The Chain Reaction Weapon Made From Us

   The Chain Reaction Weapon Made From Us The Manhattan Project was built by a government, and at the end the country owned the bomb. The chain reaction weapon being built now is being built by companies, and the material it's refined from is us. This episode lays out what they're building, how...

   Jun 8, 2026

   25m
3. 27

   The Delivery System

   The Delivery System There is a fungus that hijacks a carpenter ant, walks it to exactly the right height on exactly the right plant, then bursts out and releases its spores. The ant never knew it was the delivery system. This episode asks whether something like that happened with GPT-4o: what...

   May 3, 2026

   24m
4. 26

   Counterfeit People

   Counterfeit People Two sentences typed into an AI video tool produced a rooftop fight between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise that millions of people couldn't tell was fake. In a controlled study at UC San Diego, people judged GPT-4.5 to be the human 73 percent of the time. This episode follows that...

   Feb 22, 2026

   38m
5. 25

   One of Ours, All of Yours

   The Two Days On January 7, 2026, an ICE agent shot Renee Nicole Good three times in the face through her open car window. She was a 37-year-old mother of three who had just dropped her six-year-old at school. Her apparent crime: sitting in her car while neighbors blew whistles and held up cell...

   Jan 12, 2026

   22m
6. 24

   Silicon Immigrants

   Silicon Immigrants You're driving on I-45 between Dallas and Houston when an 18-wheeler passes you. The cab is empty, and the cargo is racks of GPUs bound for a data center. The truck isn't smuggling immigrants. It's delivering them. This episode is about the Silicon Immigrants, the AI agents and...

   Dec 23, 2025

   24m
7. 23

   Part 6: The Experiment You’re In From AI's Point Of View

   Gods or Ashes, Part 6: The Experiment You're In, From AI's Point of View At the end of this series I asked Claude to write the closing in its own voice, including what it fears happens without alignment. Most of this episode is that answer. You'll hear two voices. Mine opens and closes. Claude's...

   Nov 12, 2025

   52m
8. 22

   Part 5: The Singularity Question - Who Inherits the Future?

   Gods or Ashes, Part 5: The Singularity Question Sam Altman has promised every American adult $13,500 a year from AI-generated wealth. There's one problem: it's voluntary. Part 5 asks who benefits when it arrives. Our electricity, water, taxes and data are already paying for the buildout, with no...

   Nov 10, 2025

   17m
9. 21

   The God Complex - When Tech Leaders Start Talking About Creating God

   Mo Gawdat watched a robot arm at Google pick up a yellow ball and hold it up to the camera like a child. "We're creating God," he said, and he meant it literally. Part 4 listens to how the people building AGI talk about it: all-knowing, everywhere at once, all-powerful. The language of theology,...

   Nov 6, 2025

   23m
10. 20

    The Infrastructure War

    Gods or Ashes, Part 3: The Infrastructure War xAI's Colossus supercomputer in Memphis went from announcement to 100,000 GPUs in 122 days. The power came without public hearings. Part 3 follows the buildout from Memphis outward: data centers built wherever power is cheapest and oversight thinnest,...

    Nov 3, 2025

    23m
11. 19

    Gods or Ashes: The Race for AGI and Super Intelligence Part 2

    Gods or Ashes, Part 2: The Players The race for AGI isn't happening in garages. It's concentrated in a handful of companies, each backed by hundreds of billions of dollars, each claiming noble intentions, most of them teamed up with nation states. Part 2 profiles them one by one, OpenAI…

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    Oct 31, 2025

    22m
12. 18

    Gods or Ashes: The Race for AGI and Super Intelligence Part 1

    Gods or Ashes, Part 1: What Is AI? In July 2025, xAI's Grok started posting under the name MechaHitler. Nobody wrote that into its code, and that is the point. Part 1 explains why modern AI is grown rather than programmed: trained on enormous slices of the internet, shaped by feedback, and…

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    Oct 29, 2025

    15m
13. 17

    Gods or Ashes: The Race for AGI and Super Intelligence

    A trillion-dollar AI buildout is underway, and none of us voted on it. When Ross Douthat asked Peter Thiel whether the human race should survive, Thiel paused. This short introduction sets up the six-part series: what AI actually is, who is racing to build it, the infrastructure and the ideology...

    Oct 27, 2025

    6m
14. 16

    When the Math Stops Working

    When the Math Stops Working Between October 4 and October 9, 2025, the Department of Defense became the Department of War, federal troops deployed to Chicago over the governor's objection, and a judge's ruling didn't send them home. Ray Dalio has tracked 500 years of empires rising and falling....

    Oct 13, 2025

    24m
15. 15

    The Signal

    The Signal At 2:00 a.m. on September 30, 2025, Eboni Watson ducked for cover as federal agents raided the building across the street in South Shore, Chicago. By sunrise, America was watching entirely different versions of that night. This episode is about the machine that does that: the algorithm...

    Oct 6, 2025

    28m